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what do u read? (genre, favourite, current/just-finished)

Tars: nice bump there, i had forgotten abt this thread :|
had this since last year but finally on the way to finishing this book titled tripping -an anthology of true-life psychedelic adventures editted by charles hayes.
a most interesting read, 50 accounts of people's experiences and how they approach psychedelics which have greatly influence, augmented and broadened my own personal view.
next book on the list would be last night a dj saved my life which nezo is reading and i came across couple of months back on the amazon mailing list.
though i am still trying to get my hands on the paperback edition of the collapsium.
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[applesbliss] sucks to be us
[vurtomatic] yeah... who would wanna be us
[vurtomatic] fuck... we sit infront of the comp chatting n wasting our lives away waiting for the next good tune to come along
[vurtomatic] no glamour in that
[applesbliss] we're tune junkies
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I generally read quite a variety of books.. no set genre really..
just finished The world according to Garp by John Irving..an interesting book...and also 1984 by Orwell.. but my favourite book of all is Catcher in the Rye.. by Salinger
 
Just finished:
Primo Levi - The periodic table. Amazing read...
Monica Attard - Russia, which way paradise.
The ABC's correspondent to Russia gives catalogues and offers her experiences in the final years of the crumbling soviet union and the implementation of 'democracy.' Fooking good read.
Haha! Polar bear... I finished all of Lois de Beneires books a while ago! They are some of my favorite reads ever!
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*taps fingers impatiently for next installement of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series*
Vurt - I'd lend you 'last night a DJ saved my life' if it was mine to lend. I'll ask though...
At the moment I'm also reading Rene Rivkin's Stock report and a book on Japanese architecture called 'Modern Japan'.
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Shut up. If I wanted to listen to an arsehole, I would have farted.
 
nezo: that would be most excellent
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but depending on the book, i might just get a copy to keep.
if u're interested, i have the book of e which is a history of "rave culture" from the drug's point of view, not unlike ur last night a dj saved my life i'd think
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[a young boy puts a feather into his mouth -jeff noon] | [vurtopia]
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[applesbliss] sucks to be us
[vurtomatic] yeah... who would wanna be us
[vurtomatic] we sit infront of the comp chatting n wasting our lives away
[vurtomatic] waiting for the next good tune to come along
[vurtomatic] no glamour in that
[applesbliss] we're tune junkies
 
Well seing as I just got told off in the othe thread I though t I would bump this and add the review that was placed there.
Hey Airwalk Man...
I'm half way thru reading...The Nancy Wake Biographay..Written by Peter Fitzimons..
And I must say it's a very interesting read..Nancy wake being an Aussie girl who moved to France just before the outbreak of WW2.She became a hero in the French resistance and saved many lives...A extremely well written book...
Hope this helps
Over and Out
BCR
Oh and Tarsy, me sorry.
*Runs away sulking*
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Huh,...What,...Who,....Dude I can't here a fucken word your saying.
 
just finished 9 david gemmell novels in 13 days, THOSE THINGS ARE CRACK, not the most mind fucking reading, but fun nonetheless and just finished slaughterhouse 5 by kurt vonnegut [A must read for any compassionate person].
just opened Brave New World Aldus Huxley.
p.s. VURT!!!!!!! you aint posted for ages!, get back here!
 
Still just dilly-dallying through my Feist collection.
The ones he wrote with Janny Wurts were ok but yeah waiting for some new stuff.
 
i read all different stuff! i'm currently halfway through 'fear & loathing in las vegas' but some of my other faves include:
he died with a felafel in his hand
trainspotting
the vampire chronicles
anything by the sandman
anything by the goddess that is helen razer
george orwell's animal farm & 1984
& i also read a compilation of writing from henry rollins-fuckin intense stuff!
 
semi suggested we give this thread a bump so here it is :D
though i am still trying to get my hands on the paperback edition of the collapsium.
yes i finally read the collapsium heh
just finished :
The Collapsium by Wil McCarthy
errrm about black holes, and stuff, sci-fi
i am hoping this book will be published as a paperback soon:
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson
An individual ant, like an individual neuron, is just about as dumb as can be. Connect enough of them together properly, though, and you get spontaneous intelligence. Web pundit Steven Johnson explains what we know about this phenomenon with a rare lucidity in Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software. Starting with the weird behavior of the semi-colonial organisms we call slime molds, Johnson details the development of increasingly complex and familiar behavior among simple components: cells, insects, and software developers all find their place in greater schemes.
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I love fantasy books.
The best book ever written is called:
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet.
I can read that thing over and over again and never get sick of it. It is so entertaining, so detailed and fucking perfection.
The most interesting book ever.
Anyone love fantasy kind of books, read this. It fucking rocks from the first page.
Another fucking amazing book is called:
The Damage done.
It is about a guy caught traficking DRUGS in Thailand and what happened to him and why it happened and about his time in prison and the results of his actions.
If you read this book, you will honestly not put it down until it is finished. Fucking amazing TRUE STORY. It rocks.
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Just started reading "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers.
Recently finished "Crazy Cock" by Henry Miller. I've read everything he's ever written. A true gutter poet.
 
- a drunken taba returns from a slab sess in his future house-
Goddamn i thought this thread was completely recent, damn u bumpers all to hell, but yeah all my fav authors have been already mentioned. Except Ian Rankin- really good scottish detective novels and alfred bester whom i mentioned in the other literary thread... ye gads i feel pissed :)
 
Originally posted by Tabernacle:
Goddamn i thought this thread was completely recent
semi and i just thought we'd keep the books together in one thread and bumped this since this thread had more replies :D
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I read MX in the afternoon, I think it has a lurverly mix of news, current events, sport, enternainment.. and so forth...
 
deecee1 that is by far the most heroic tale of literary adventure I have heard thus far. My hat goes off to you :0)
I can highly recommend The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea.
By far the funniest, scariest and most subversive & immersive novel I have come across so far.
"Get into it Son!"
Oh, and the MX. Ho Ho Ho!
 
Here's the other thread semi started...
I'm in the middle of reading The Rising Shadow - Robert Jordan... Another 5 volumes to go after this one...
Also on the shelf is Anne McCaffrey - The Skies of Pern and Raymond E. Feist and William Forstchen - Ledgends of the Riftwar and Issac Asimov - The Foundation Series
 
Tarsalan:
You need to be careful with those Robert Jordan books. I know too many people who have gone down that path and never returned - whilst waiting for the next book in the series(are they up to about the fortieth now or something), they start rereading the first ones again :-)
It's like a drug, and I've lost some good friends to that disease (not really, but if I couldn't be ludicrously melodramatic at least once a day I'd get bored...)
 
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